2011 Teachers Tournament final game 1.
Charles Temple — a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
Larry DeMoss — a high school English teacher from Ellettsville, Indiana
Lori Kissell — a high school Latin teacher from Fredericksburg, Virginia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lori | $1,400 | $5,400 | $14,300 | $26,300 |
$13,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Larry | $0 | $1,400 | $11,000 | $7,000 |
$10,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Charles | $3,000 | $4,000 | $12,800 | $18,800 |
$15,000
22 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| YOU GET A STAR | COUNTRY: STRONG | ETHNIC GROUPS | VENDING MACHINES | ARRIVALS | IT'S "MAY"! |
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$200
[16]
Wolf 359, the fifth-closest star to Earth, takes the name "wolf" from this
Max Wolf (the man who discovered it)
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$200
[21]
Roy Acuff sang the first song when this country institution moved to its new Tennessee home in 1974
the Grand Ole Opry
Charles
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$200
[2]
Not surprisingly Persians make up about 51% of this country's people
Iran
Charles
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$200
[22]
A 2010 order by the mayor banned calorically sweetened these from vending machines on S.F. city property
drinks (sodas accepted)
Lori
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$200
[11]
On his May 1927 arrival in Paris, he worried about killing some in the crowd of 10,000 with his propeller
Lindbergh
Charles
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$200
[1]
On the small screen, Gomer & Opie lived there
Mayberry
Charles
|
|
$400
[17]
Our sun is a dwarf star; Capella A is a giant star & Antares A is this even bigger type
super giant
Larry
Charles
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$400
[23]
"A dream is like" this, "ever changin' as it flows", sang Garth Brooks in this song that gets him the most fan mail
"A River"
|
$400
[3]
People originally from this Iberian country make up Luxembourg's second-largest ethnic group
Portugal
Larry
Charles
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$400
[25]
William Rowe's 1926 machine vended these by the pack; in the Depression a new machine sold them individually
cigarettes
Larry
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$400
[12]
On his arrival in Egypt in 48 B.C., he was presented with his rival Pompey's pickled head
Julius Caesar
Charles
|
$400
[7]
Stable emulsion of vinegar, oil, raw egg yolks & lemon juice; yum!
mayonnaise
Charles
|
|
$600
[18]
The brightness of a star is described by this word, from the Latin for "great"
magnitude
Charles
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$600
[24]
In his native West Virginia, folks turn it on, turn it up & sing along with him
Brad Paisley
|
$600
[4]
Greeks account for 77% of this country's people (& Greece isn't the word)
Cyprus
Larry
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$600
[26]
It's the filling in the vending machine stalwart, Toasty Crackers from Lance Incorporated
peanut butter
Larry
|
$600
[13]
With age, John Paul II modified this custom; on arriving in South Africa in 1994, he was handed a basket of earth
kissing the ground
Lori
|
$600
[8]
Its journey across the pond took 66 days in 1620
the Mayflower
Charles
|
|
$800
[19]
Many Milky Way stars pair with another around a common center of gravity & are called this, like a computer code
a binary
Charles
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$800
[29]
As well as music videos, this network airs shows like "My Big Redneck Wedding"
CMT (Country Music Television)
Lori
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$800
[5]
At about 15%, this native people constitute New Zealand's largest minority
the Maori
Charles
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$800
[27]
This colorful service operates about 25,000 kiosks that rent you a DVD for a buck
Redbox
Larry
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$800
[14]
April 21 is a Rastafarian holiday--it's the date in 1966 when Haile Selassie visited this island
Jamaica
Charles
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$800
[9]
Short-lived member of the order ephemeroptera
the mayfly
Lori
|
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$1,000
[20]
The radial outflow of ionized gas from a star is called stellar or solar this
wind
Lori
Larry
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$1,000
[30]
She's the Grammy winner heard here
Miranda Lambert
Lori
Charles
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$1,000
[6]
At 7%, Hungarians form Romania's largest minority, while Roma, popularly known as these people, make up 2%
gypsies
Charles
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$1,000
[28]
It's the term for a metal imitation coin used to fool a vending machine
a slug
Lori
Larry
|
DD
$2,200
[15]
On July 8, 1853 Commodore Matthew Perry historically sailed into this bay
the Tokyo bay
Charles
|
$1,000
[10]
Named for the festival once held there, it's a district of Central London
Mayfair
Larry
Charles
|
| BIBLICAL WOMEN | FILM GRAMMAR | QUOTES ABOUT TEACHING | THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | COLORFUL 19th CENTURY LIT | BROKEN ENGLISH |
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$400
[1]
"And it came to pass" that Samson loved this "woman in the valley of Sorek"
Delilah
Charles
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$400
[4]
In "Written on the Wind", said wind blows the pages of this back 1 year, indicating a flashback
a calendar
Charles
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$400
[13]
This conqueror & pupil of Aristotle is quoted, "I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well"
Alexander the Great
Larry
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$400
[18]
This major step taken in 1972 was originally supposed to come about through a merger with St. Mary's college
co-education
Lori
|
$400
[2]
This 1895 Stephen Crane work has been called the first modern war novel
The Red Badge of Courage
Larry
|
$400
[22]
It means to fly apart suddenly, especially from internal pressure such as can happen to a balloon or an appendix
burst
Larry
|
|
$800
[3]
She told her mother-in-law Naomi, "whither thou goest, I will go...thy people shall be my people"
Ruth
Lori
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$800
[9]
Horror films often show the victim from the perspective of the killer, a shot known by this 3-letter abbrev.
POV (point of view)
Lori
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$800
[14]
In 1963 this pres. said cynics would pay "those to whom they entrust the minds of their children" less than their plumbers
Kennedy
Larry
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$800
[23]
1 of the 2 feature films released that has ever been allowed to shoot scenes on campus
Rudy (or Knute Rockne, All American )
Larry
|
$800
[5]
The subtitle of this 1877 novel is "The Autobiography of a Horse"
Black Beauty
Lori
|
$800
[26]
Neil Sedaka sang, "If you go then I'll be blue, 'cause" this "is hard to do"
"Breaking Up"
Lori
|
|
$1,600
[20]
The story of this woman, the only female to judge Israel, is told twice in Judges
Deborah
Lori
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$1,200
[10]
A cut from an event to a close-up on someone's face is this type of shot, also found in a Newtonian law
a reaction shot
Charles
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$1,200
[15]
In this work Khalil Gibran said a wise teacher "leads you to the threshold of your own mind"
The Prophet
Larry
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$1,200
[24]
The Basilica is modeled on the Rome church of this order of Father Marquette, who explored the South Bend area
the Jesuits
Lori
Larry
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$1,200
[6]
A trip to Liverpool as a cabin boy on a merchant ship helped this man pen "Redburn"; it wasn't the last novel he set at sea
(Herman) Melville
Larry
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$1,200
[27]
It can precede bean, fastener or dragon
snap
Larry
|
|
$2,000
[21]
By offering water to Abraham's servant, she identified herself as the bride appointed by God for Isaac
Rebecca
Larry
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$1,600
[11]
Grainy film stock gives the impression of this, verite en francais
truth
Charles
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$1,600
[16]
He wrote in the business magazine bearing his name that education "replaces an empty mind with an open one"
(Malcolm) Forbes
Charles
|
— |
$1,600
[7]
The first chapter of this 1887 work is titled "Mr. Sherlock Holmes"
A Study in Scarlet
Charles
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$1,600
[25]
This word was used to describe the "Fairy Tales" narrated by Edward Everett Horton on "The Bullwinkle Show"
fractured
Larry
|
|
DD
$2,500
[19]
This Phoenician princess who married King Ahab was thrown out a window & her corpse devoured by dogs
Jezebel
Lori
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$2,000
[12]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue.) A Dutch tilt gives the viewer a sense that things aren't quite right; the word "Dutch" was originally this word, because German filmmakers liked the technique
deutsche
Charles
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$2,000
[17]
This 19th c. pioneer of public schools called education a "great equalizer...balance-wheel of the social machinery"
(Horace) Mann
Larry
Charles
|
— |
$2,000
[8]
In 1872 he published the first of his Wessex novels "Under the Greenwood Tree"
(Thomas) Hardy
Charles
|
DD
$2,800
[28]
Tennyson wrote "Out flew the web and floated wide, the mirror" did this "from side to side"
cracked
Larry
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They're the only father & son to receive the AFI's Life Achievement Award--dad in 1991, son in 2009
Kirk Douglas & Michael Douglas